Myths of modernity
Subtitle: peonage and patriarchy in Nicaragua
By: Elizabeth Dore.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Social stratification -- Nicaragua -- Diriomo (Municipio); Peonage -- Nicaragua -- Diriomo (Municipio); Patriarchy -- Nicaragua -- Diriomo (Municipio); Peasantry -- Nicaragua -- Diriomo (Municipio); Sex role -- Nicaragua -- Diriomo (Municipio); Diriomo (Nicaragua : Municipio) -- Ethnic relations; Diriomo (Nicaragua : Municipio) -- Social conditions; Diriomo (Nicaragua : Municipio) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Who controls the past controls the future; title: Theories of capitalism, class, gender, and ethnicity; title: Indians under colonialism and postcolonialism; title: Patriarchal power in the pueblos; title: The private property revolution; title: Gendered contradictions of liberalism: ethnicity, property, and households; title: Debt peonage in Diriomo: forced labor revisited; title: Patriarchy and peonage.